Helps shatter the pervasive and imbalanced image of women on the sidelines of the black freedom struggle
Acknowledgments Introduction Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard 1 "No Small Amount of Change Could Do" Erik S. McDuffie 2 What "the Cause" Needs Is a "Brainy and Energetic Woman" Prudence Cumberbatch 3 From Communist Politics to Black Power Dayo F. Gore 4 Shirley Graham Du Bois Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens 5 "A Life History of Being Rebellious" Jeanne Theoharis 6 Framing the Panther Joy Jamesvi Contents 7 Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Education Ericka Huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest 8 Must Revolution Be a Family Affair? Margo Natalie Crawford 9 Retraining the Heartworks James Smethurst 10 "Women's Liberation or ... Black Liberation, You're Fighting the Same Enemies" Sherie M. Randolph 11 To Make That Someday Come Joshua Guild 12 Denise Oliver and the Young Lords Party Johanna Fernandez 13 Grassroots Leadership and Afro-Asian Solidarities Diane C. Fujino 14 "We Do Whatever Becomes Necessary" Premilla Nadasen About the Contributors Index
Jeanne Theoharis (Editor)
Jeanne Theoharis is distinguished Professor of Political
Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY. She is the author of numerous
books and articles on the black freedom struggle, including the
award-winning The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Beacon Press,
2013) and most recently A More Beautiful and Terrible History
(Beacon Press, 2018).
Komozi Woodard (Editor)
Komozi Woodard is Professor of American History, Public
Policy, and Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author
of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power
Politics.
Dayo F. Gore (Editor)
Dayo F. Gore is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and
Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego
and has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi
Woodard) of Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black
Freedom Struggle (NYU Press, 2009).
As the editors and contributors of this volume convincingly insist,
we must reconsider what we think we know of civil rights, black
power activism, and post-World War II feminism . . . Expansive and
inclusive are the terms that best describe this collection.
*Journal of American History*
This book is an important intervention in the historiography of US
Black movements, strongly asserting the centrality of women in a
broad range of Black liberation struggles.
*leftturn.org*
By centering radical black women, Want to Start a Revolution?
shatters the artificial boundaries separating civil rights, black
power, and feminist ideologies and movements, generating an
expanded history of black radicalism and conveying the centrality
of African-American women to the black freedom struggle and social
justice movements more broadly. This collection will undoubtedly
inspire an outpouring of much-needed new scholarship, adding to our
collective knowledge and offering new frameworks for grappling with
this history.
*Emilye Crosby,author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black
Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi*
This noteworthy collection returns women activists to their place
at the center of American radicalism. In the spirit of the radical
women it profiles, Want to Start a Revolution? promises to educate,
invigorate, excite, and inspire.
*Anne M. Valk,author of Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and
Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.*
“Want to Start a Revolution? successfully meets its three goals of
expanding the boundaries of black radicalism, shedding light on the
labor women performed to sustain radical movements, and exploring
the gender politics of black women activists (pp. 3-4).
Collectively, the essays will provide activists, students, and
academic specialists with powerful insights into post- World War II
black feminist thought, and the lives of women who joined and
guided movements to transform an oppressive society. This
collection will also be useful to teachers aiming to introduce
students to the politics of historical memory, and the recent
distortions of civil rights discourse. We owe a debt of gratitude
to the editors and contributors to this collection for reminding us
that in the postwar struggle for revolutionary change, as now,
women of color hold up more than half the sky.
*H-Net Reviews*
“A new work offers a lively picture of two dozen different women
organizers and how their contributions define our present and,
possibly, our future... is among one of the best and freshest
writings on women and movement-building in some time.
*Political Media Review*
“In sum, this anthology will undoubtedly spark renewed interest in
recovering the myriad of female activists whose stories have not
yet been told... Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
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